STATE Flashcards
a territoriality bound sovereign entity
State
is the premise that each state has complete authority and is the ultimate source of law within its own boundaries.
Sovereignty
Refers to the set of organizational units and people that performs the political functions of an
entire national territorial entity
State
a state has the right to resist any aggression, invasion
or intervention within its territory
doctrine of Territorial Integrity
a set of people with a deeply shared fundamental identification
Nation
a powerful commitment to the advancement of the interests and welfare of an individual’s own nation, with minimal concern about the conditions of those outside the nation
Nationalism
some key shared trait(s) lean a significant group of people to see themselves as being distinctive, with a
shared political agenda that might shape their political beliefs or motivate their actions.
Identity Politics
a term for more than 370 million people in about 70 countries.
each of these 5,000 distinct nations is understood to be a “first people” who originally inhabited a geographic area as “natives”, but who were then subjugated by an invading nation.
Indigenous People
an area that has both the territorial borders of a single state and a citizenry who all share the same primary
national identity.
Nation - State
the authoritative allocation of values for the collectivity.
makes policy decisions (allocations) that are binding (based on its authority) with regard to things that have
importance (values) to the people it serves (collectivity)
Political System
are those things that have great significance and importance to peoples.
Values
refers to such choice-making, to the process by decisions and actions are taken to grant values to some and deny values to others
Allocation
is the name given to all those activities that are not part of the political system’s activity domain
Environment of the Political System
when the decisions inn value allocations are accepted as binding by those people affected by the decisions
Authoritative
are wants or desire for particular value allocations
Demands
are actions by individuals or groups that indicate either favorable or unfavorable orientations towards the political system
Supports
The process by which the political actors assess demands and supports within the context of the relevant environmental forces and then determine what values will be allocated to them
Conversion
the impacts of the decisions taken and implemented by the political system
Outcomes
the dynamic through which information about those changes in the environment are monitored by the political system
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